true cedar

Questions about true cedar

What does true cedar mean?

true cedar means "any cedar of the genus Cedrus".

What is another word for true cedar?

Close synonyms include cedar, cedar tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is true cedar a common word?

true cedar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.